10 Best Survival Crops for Guerilla Gardening!
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- 10 Best Survival Crops for Guerilla Gardening!
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This video was made and produced in Austria.
Here is a complete list of the crops I have mentioned in this video:
1. Potato
2. Jerusalem Artichoke
3. Black Salsify
4. Common Salsify
5. Sugar Root (Skirret)
6. Onions
7. Garlic
8. Tiger Nut (Earth Almond or Chufa)
9. Radish
10. Strawberries (the small version)
Thank You Lilly...you're the best!!!
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Spanish salsify
Thank you I really enjoy watching your programs
Potatoes stored together with charcoal in a dark place will last several months.
I'm homeless and have maybe a dozen Guerilla gardens throughout the feral areas around town. I grow garlic, onions, carrots, Jew chokes, sweet potatoes, tiger nut, sugar beets and all the other stuff in summer. I store my stuff under water, very cold water in a watertight container. Much of my summer crop I air dry it. I will be adding burdock, Thanks
Dude, you should start a TH-cam Channel!
For real!!@@bobbader4789
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That great it have to be very cold water vacuum the air in it ..the time you have your food under water …? My self I am at 55 latitude
@@micheloff-grid4248 The river I use stays around 44f, it's off Cascades snow pack year round. In the winter to get to the food it's frozen over the top sometimes. I do use a vacuum sealer on dried food stored. I rent a small storage building in town that has electric. I have a small apartment fridge, vacuum sealer and dehydrator. I also keep my electric bike batteries charged from there and from solar at my camp. I built the bike and 4 extra batteries. I'm not your stereo typical homeless, no drugs or habits unless Mt. Dew counts! I'm homeless by choice. I'm 69 with Social security. I REALLY enjoy the freedom and my bills are only about $300 a month. Everything else goes into savings. This time of year I wash windows when people are spring cleaning mode.
I love my life!!!
I appreciate the way Lilly says the name of what she's talking about, again & again. Instead of saying "it" or "them" all the time.
It helps me NOT lose my place if I am multitasking or if I start the video over again in the middle. Makes my life easier & learning faster. THANK YOU! 😀
Hugely important and massively helpful. - A natural teacher and communicator.
Talking in ambiguous generalities drives me frustrated + loopy also.
The really tiny potatoes that most people laugh at me for saving for decades! =boiled right after harvest = are very tasty with salt pepper butter!
Creamed peas and potatoes are a good meal for small potatoes. I throw them into soups.
@@alicerafferty9595 yes they are! It's very surprising how just a few vegetables can be so versatile when making different dishes and tasting so good even when varying the amount changes the taste =flavor!
I wash the tiny potatoes and throw them in a crock pot with a roast.
@@kathymcmc I went to school in the 60s&70s! Had older parents! Depression kids! I was tought "wasn't not want not!"
Good Tasting Food!
We won't laugh at that 😊❤
Lilly, You don't need a root cellar to keep your potatoes.
Every year for the last 60 years I have kept my potatoes all winter long from the time of harvest until the time of planting in a dark room in my house that has normal ventilation and does not freeze. It stays around 50° F. If I don't have a dark room I throw a loose weave cover over the potatoes on top to keep the light at a minimum.
I dont wash all the dirt off my potatoes before storing them because it interferes in their skin's natural resistence to mold. I usually store my keeping onions yellow or red not white in another small well ventilated room in my house because the onions are sensitive to moisture given off by the potatoes breathing. Same with the apples I keep them with my onions. Squash I keep on wood not wire shelves close together but not touching. I make sure the stems are well cured before I store them in a room that does not go below 50°F. I check them for mold periodically and eat the ones right away that show signs of developing mold. The mold will spread quickly to the other squash if left for any time at all. This has been my life style for 60 years. I feel I can say that it's time tested.❤ 3:13
Love this! In Texas I grow sweet potatoes. I've got glasses with them suspended in water with toothpicks and they are really vining up now! I pinch the slips of the potatoes when they get to 5-8 inches long and root them in the same water glass. Also trying for the first time laying the potatoes on top of dirt in a plastic planter and keeping moist. This is going very well. They are bursting with growth. The dirt way is less work because I don't have to change the water constantly and they are outside and out of my way. Cheers.
@@pegsol3834 Keep growing.
@@pegsol3834 Keep doing the dirt bedding as that is much more successful than the water tanks.
@@jvin248 Good morning. The water glass method took off much faster than the dirt method. I actually didn't think laying the potatoes on the dirt was working at all. It was early Spring so kinda cool too. Now that it is much warmer the ones in dirt have exploded with growth. They are far outpacing the water method and very healthy and thick also!
I cann potatoes and onions and green beans and ham with garlic and lots of red pepper it's a nre..meal Rady to eat in the jar..then you don't need to waste time on dishes and soap and cleaning your ass off 24 7...I use water bath..and pressure cooking techniques both are good..
Here in North Florida I plant my potatoes in winter. Cabbage, onion,broccoli, collards and other greens are planted here in winter. Spring I plant beans of all kinds. Tomatoes, and I grow my sweet potato slips. Summer I plant my sweet potato slips and oakra. Then I have enough fruit trees to give me some type of fruit all year long. I also have discoria alotta as a survival crop. Lots of the items you mentioned we don't have here. I also grow sugar cane in Spring and summer. Plus chickens. I live on one acre.
You had me at okra. I think okra should be a mandatory item in all school lunch programs.
@@waynehendrix4806 lol
Bravo! Well done.
I live in northern Michigan, so winter is cold. We grow potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. Last year I decided to try something and I left the tiny ones in the soil in the buckets. Most of them have already started coming up so I'm hoping to get a good harvest from them. I also saved a few seed potatoes as well that we planted. But to see then ones I left out all winter are growing gives me hope that I could do this every year.
i leave mine in the ground all year....they too survive frost...i never have to plant new ones i just leave some in the ground ...only harvest what i need when i need it
I am one of those lucky people with a root cellar, but before I had one, I kept the little potatoes in a brown paper bag in the back of my veggie drawer in the fridge.
I could keep about 30-40 of the little ones, pull them out a couple weeks before I'm ready to plant and have another big crop! Potatoes are so easy to grow and I never have to buy seed potatoes anymore. Thanks Lilly! Love your videos!
I also do not have a cellar. It would be an indoor swimming pool where I live. And I have successfully kept potatoes in a box in the house over the winter. Short mild winters where I live.
bury a broken fridge/freezer in your yard. that makes a root cellar
What a great idea, thank you ❤
And a lank mark on your property.
Good idea.
Great idea !
Or a hole with a 5 gallon bucket... etc. Cover in straw, or leaves, and then soil. Dig it up when you are nearly expired.
You have to think like a 8th century serf.
If you grow sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes, the sweet potato leaves are edible (so are the roots), sweet potato leaves are good sources of protein, fiber, and minerals, especially K, P, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, and Cu
Potatoes in the spring and/or fall. Sweet potatoes in the summer.
We purchased heirloom seeds awhile ago. Most of our seeds came from the old garden, that had been in our family, since 1831. That house has a cold room too. We just plant what we like to eat. We haven't researched the medicinal herbs yet. Thank you, this vlog was a big reminder! Thank you, Lilly! 👍
Hello from N.Central Florida ! I LEAVE MY SWEET POTATOES IN THE GROUND year round. AND DIG ONE UP WHEN I WANT TO EAT ONE.I haven't needed to cure them , they are nice and sweet ready to eat.
You live in the perfect climate for this. Awesome.
I made a root cellar by berrying a garbage bin in the ground two thirds and stacked sand bags around so it won't flood.
You sound much more reasonable than someone who mentioned burying a refrigerator above... outer container, waterproof, below ground and then cover with some insulation matter, and soil.
Also turnip tops will feed sheep goats and chickens in the winter
Turnips will draw deer and other animals too.
Just like radish tops, but not if I get them first.
Having a rout cellar is great do not relie on a freezer. When driving a semi truck was in Maine north of Portland Maine. Had unloaded and found a small restaurant with truck parking. They had a boiled dinner consisting of potatoes, beets, turnips, carrots, onions, cabbage and corned beef or turkey. All rout cellar storage. They t9ld
I'm in Ireland, my mother told me they made a 'pit' to store veggies in the ground years ago. They dug a hole, lined it with straw, put veg in, covered with straw and then put the clay back on. Theres no root cellars here. Always meant to try it but might have to give it a go!!
Comfrey is great. Also known as boneknit for its healing.
Sugarroot I'm guessing is another term for Skirret (Sium Sisarum). Delicious, tastes like parsnip very sweet, tasty, crispy. Each plant is very bushy (lots and lots of stalks and leaves), each plant growing a mass of carrotlike roots. The first year I had around 5-15 offsets from each mother plant, and in the fall I pulled them off gently and transplanted. They are all sprouting this spring. Start the skirret seedlings in a deep raised bed with rich soil and you will not only have a great harvest but also a great number of offsets and you can quickly go from 100 to 400 (or more!) plants in just 1 season. The leaves are also edible. I also recommend Stinging nettle, it deters invaders :) you can plant stinging nettle in and around a corn patch and it spreads readily and is perennial coming back year after year. If thats not enough then plant burdock, just 1 burr provides hours of fun removing those prickly little burrs from clothing. I also like planting raspberries and nettle together so whoever picks berries also gets stung, requiring gloves and long sleeve shirt and pants. ❤
Nettles are so nutritious..., soups with Burdock, dandelion root..
Tiger nut flour mixed with clean cold water 100g/L, then strained through a cloth bag makes "Horchata de Chufas" which is a Spanish tiger nut milk. Add sugar (i like a lot) to taste.
There is a popular product in Spain called "Chufi", based on Tiger Nuts (or chufas). Tastes great. Have a search.
Great video!
Ms. Lilly, you are truly the most remarkable woman I have ever seen! You have taught me so much. Thank you! Your husband is so blessed to have you.
I have heard that cattails can be made into a torch by soaking it in some type of oil? It also has other medicinal and useful purposes such as an alternative to down for warmth…. and the leaves can be made to weave mats.
I enjoy all of your video content !
The roots are delicious. Tastes like carrots but softer.
It all depends on what growing zone you live in, here in the south East USA we plant a lot of corn, cowpeas and sweet potatoes. Potatoes should have been planted a month ago here, I plan on moving up north soon so I will have a lot to learn soon.
Let me tell you, I'm still in the same zone, but moved from Louisiana to Texas and it's a whole new world!
@@mommypov4958 that's also a fact because we have severe disease pressure here in South Carolina that the dryer climates out west don't have to deal with, if you can grow food in Louisiana you can probably grow food on Mars though because I know all about y'all's heat and humidity over yander 🤣
@chrisp308 that's it exactly! They both have their negatives, just different, and i had 35 years if my life doing it there, lol, it was what i knew. There is no let the rain water the garden here, I may get 5-8 days of rain through the whole season, and out of those 5-8 days, 80% includes hail. And the pest pressure! Louisiana feels like your being smothered and texas desert feels like your being cooked!
@chrisp308 Goodluck on your journey !
Purple topped turnips....and they come back next year.
So I plant alot and only take 50% to harvest
I would add Butternut Squash to your list of garden crops, it is easy to grow without much attention. 👍
Good morning, Lilly, I bet you're prepping madly at the moment. In regard to keeping potatoes long term. The main thing is darkness and the cool spot, like you said. But we live in the sub tropics, and we keep potatoes for months by putting them in hessian bags in the coolest part of the house. But in a pinch, get a s&#t load of white rice in kilo bags, vacuum pack them. You'll have plenty of carbs. Or better still move to Oz. Its the best country in the world to get through the Zombie apocalypse. Cheers
I agree 😊
You know a zombie apocalypse is fiction don't you?
Absolutely love the title of this video! Got my interest instantly! 😂 Love your videos, been a follower since close to the beginning! Keep up the great work.
There are lot of crops that can sustain you and people would not recognise them as food! Thus, you could grow them in the wild if you have no garden. It's probably illegal and risky, but beats not having any food...
Lilly, for a quick/inexpensive root cellar: get a (new) trash can or (food grade) barrel and bury it in the ground with space on top to pack straw and lay over boards or an old pallet. Put a few rocks in the bottom as a 'floor'. Use several of these. It's an old method historically using large crock pots (famously Korean Kimchi, German Sauerkraut, probably many others). Somewhat safe from zombies. I have missed a few potatoes while digging at harvest that actually overwinter, so last year I left most of my potatoes in the ground and lightly covered with herbicide-free grass/hay and see what comes up. We get frost down three feet. Some potato varieties contain less moisture (the ones used to make chips) and those might survive better through deep ground freezing than others.
I like planting vegetables like radishes and carrots because they seem to grow like weeds for me.
Have you ever tried Amaranth? I have been experimenting with it for around three years now. I got some heirloom red dye amaranth seeds and two years ago I was ready to give up trying them because they did not do very well, or so I thought. Last summer in the spring I had all kinds of red dye amaranth come up in my garden like a weed, so I looked into it. Turns out they call it a super food because it loves dry drought like conditions and you can eat almost every part of the plant. The leaves the flowers the seeds all can be eaten. And when I pull off some leaves to eat in a salad the amaranth just grows new ones. the seeds are like rye seeds and can be made in with bread and when the seeds are ready the flowers do not dye off they stay red, when you cut off a flower to get the seeds the plant just starts new flowers again. I ended up with a large coffee can full of seeds from them and they taste good when I put them into my pancake mix. The nice thing with the red dye amaranth is it looks like a big flower not like food and last summer we had a drought and it got around 8 feet in height. It can also make dye for your clothes or skin. Also the seeds can be ground into flower
Wow I've got to try this! Something that can grow in a drought!
@@jewelweed7427 when you look at the size it got too,8 feet high that means it had roots thet would have been 3 to 3.5 feet deep or maybe deeper so there would have been no problem for it finding water that deep. And it never needed fertilizer since there is an abundance of nutrients that deep.
Tiger nut here in Spain is called "Chufa", and you can make a very refreshing drink with it called "horchata" that's mainly consumed in the summer.
It's at the same level as lemonade, in my opinion.
Plus, if you need a root cellar, if I remember correctly a buried metal trash can work as it, but I don't remember if it needs wood chips/sand for insulation in the interior.
I have 70 feet of lake shore, i left 30 feet for recreation and planted the last 40 feet in cattails. They spread out to the 400 feet along the wildlife recreation area next to my land. Best crop i have ever planted and never have to maintain. I pull about 50% of it every year with hundreds of pounds of root and it all comes back.
I have seen them fed to hogs with food results.
Amazing
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Asparagus grown in a mountain draw with a wet bottom is a good choice and it is forever self spreading
What do you mean by "mountain draw with a wet bottom" ? Also what climate zone are you in?
@@lxmzhg well I live in a zone 4 or 5 but I was thinking a zone 6 area would probably work. I live in the Colorado rockies. We have lots of public lands with canyons or shallow canyons we call a draw. The water seeps in these areas even in dry weather we find berries in these areas. Burdock grows there and wild raspberry and chokecherry. Elderberry thickets are common I hunt grouse and snowshoe hares in those places. Asparagus requires water and it's perennial but it does best in undisturbed locations.
Lily is a proper gem 👍
Lots of Burdock around my town...growing wild....will check in May....and A man I know, has a whole football field of Jerusalem artichokes....he thought they were just flowers...he even said I could go harvest some....will ask him again when I see him.....Lots of wild edibles here...will be making dandelion pesto and freezing in ice cube trays..
Cow parsley, garlic mustard, hawthorns bushes, primrose, stinging nettles, hogweed and goose grass grow everywhere and are super nutritional
Thank you, I watch your video from Alberta, wish you all the best 👍
I’m first! Love your videos! Watching from my Wisconsin Farm!
Hi from Dakota wi
Outstanding video. The Jerusalem artichokes sound really interesting.
I don’t know if you have ever heard of a method of storing your potatoes called a potato clamp. This involves lift as many potatoes as you wish to store and putting them aside then pick the location you want to store the potatoes, for your purposes I would think of a remote corner of a field that is well drained start by marking out a rough circle and turn over the sod to stop the grass and weeds from growing. Next obtain several large bales of short cut straw and lay down a Ben of straw covering the circle to about 100mmto150mm depth(4 to 6 inches thick) on the straw set out a layer of potatoes and another layer of straw to the same depth. Cover the straw with a layer of soil and carry on layering soil, straw, potatoes, more straw, more soil until all of the potatoes are covered and cap the heap with a double layer of soil and make sure that all traces of the straw are well covered with soil. This method of storing potatoes is a very good way of storing potatoes over winter, but until you get used to doing it you will have to monitor your clamps to make sure they don’t become waterlogged and you don’t get any smells of rotten potatoes or any animals digging in to your clamps. I would suggest that you start by making only small clamps to learn how to spot any problems and then when you do open the clamps up do it one clamp at a time and completely empty each clamp before starting the next opening. When you empty a clamp try to store the potatoes in hessian sacks in a cool dry dark location and watch out for any shoots starting to grow and try to use any potatoes that do develop eyes and shoots first or start planting for your next crop. If possible move your clamps every year to new clean soil or risk potato blight attacking your food storage. Carrots and similar root vegetables can similarly be stored inside in-trays of sharp river sand that is dried. Again make a layer of sand and check each carrot for damages or disease as you set them on their sides making sure that they don’t touch one another and cover each layer with more layers of sand and finally lay a sheet or two of newspaper on top of the final sand layer. My father used old wooden drawers from broken furniture and old kitchens that he had been replacing for people who wanted a new kitchen and he would keep a small supply of drawers stacked in the corner of his shed. Don’t try to store any root vegetables that have any cuts in the skins and remove any leaves by pinching and twisting them off the crop. Carrots, parsnips, salsifrey and other vegetables can be stored like this as long as they will fit in your boxes without damage and each variety has its own box. Finally keep them dry but cool and check the crop regularly for pest damage( rat or mouse knawing or other problems).
I’ve been seeding potatoes all around my area for a few years now for SHTF, and other crops, but a few new ones here, thank you lovely👍🏻
We Love Lilly. Thanks for your dedication to share some knowledge 🙏🏻
"weeds" are easy foraging and often very nutricious.
burdock, yellow dock, dandelion, purslane, mallow, plantain, mustards, chives, cleavers, nettle, clover...etc.
Hello Lilly from Maine, Thank you very much for this video !
I find that Runner Bean and French climbing bean are the heaviest cropping per metre squared , and they mostly occupy the space upwards and they are MUCH easier than carrots/ beetroot/ tomatoes etc . Also climbing courgette - grows upward , and is prolific ( Black Forest
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Thank you wonderful Lady ! Watching in Arizona
I planted a large amount of sunchokes last year around my riding arena. They are prolific but I don't think they are invasive by nature. What they are is great animal fodder which is important to me. Horses, cows, goats and chickens all love to munch on it. Some of my horses and chickens will actually dig up the bulbs and eat them. I have a fairly big acreage and I think I'll spread them out some more for fall fodder because pastures are something I'm short on if I continue to take in more boarder horses. I have forested acreage that I can turn to pasture but for only my personal animals, I have enough.
I have some wild lettuce, and wild mustard blooming. I found some asparagus growing up in an old fence row where no one lives. I'm getting the greenhouse closed in before the rain gets here Saturday. I'll have all the sheet metal on it today, so I will be planting in it tomorrow or something. I would have had it done but it got stormy and there were tornado 🌀 🌪️ chances today. I bought a stainless steel sink for it last week. I have to hook it to the pump in the stock tank. I have one receptacle, adding another, so I can use a small heat lamp in colder weather 🌡️☁️. My goal is to have fresh tomatoes for Thanksgiving. An old goat shed my uncle used to use has some half rotted straw, a pickup truck load, so I'm adding that to the garden for mulch. The area is three times bigger than last year's garden area was. I'm going to build a fence around the garden to keep it away from view of the road. I am getting some cow manure from the neighbor who has thirty cows. Up by his bale feeder, there is a good amount of fertilizer I can use. It will be pretty good dirt by fall. I'll be planting beets and garden beans this week. I already have several tomato plants growing. I only planted two watermelon 🍉 plants because I got ten melons off one plant last year. I haven't had any squash for the last three years because of the bugs killing the plants. So now I can finally get some started inside. They're saying that it's going to rain 🌧️ Saturday, a lot of rain 🌧️. So I'll use the water 💦 in the stock tank tomorrow to plant some stuff. I'm going to look for seed potatoes tomorrow morning. I got some onion sets to put out, that makes the big ones that they make onion rings out of. I'll be getting more canning jars this weekend. I didn't know if I was going to need very many so I have some, but I can use more now. I am in much better place than last year. The dirt in the raised garden is really good now. I have plenty of okra seeds, two kinds. So I'm going to put some out and see how it goes. I have enough room for a few popcorn 🍿 plants. I have a small wood stove that I made a few years ago out of an old gas hot water tank. I'm going to find a good spot for it and get it ready to use. I should be able to extend the growing season if the winter isn't too harsh. I really like your videos because I think you will have good results. I have heard that our gas ⛽ is going to get expensive now, so I'll be making less trips to the city. The plants they have there are costly. But I have somewhere to have them out of the weather, so I will get a few things. I hope you do well with your growing. It's always a challenge to have a good garden. This year is going to be very hot weather because of the Grand Solar Maximum coming. So it may be tough on the plants. I'll be here a lot of the time trying different things this summer just to see what works the best. It seems like food goes up in price every time I go to the city. A garden is going to be worth a lot. Good luck with your plans. I'm going to be cutting some wood 🪵🪓 this week before it gets too hot 🥵. I figure it will be the next thing to be more expensive than it should be. It's awful times ahead.
Hi Lilly, Yes, a root cellar is like gold. I have my garden ready to plant as soon as the rain stops. I'll be transplanting my strawberries. Then plant a couple of rows of peanuts this year. Maybe some sweet corn a s well. I may plant some Tiger Nuts. Also Field Corn can be ground in a blender to make grits or finer into corn flour. Yes I do have some land I haven't farmed in years. Thanks for all the cool crop suggestions. 🙂
Very timely video! People should be thinking about self sufficiency more than ever now. Burdock is a wonderful suggestion. It is a "go to"in Macrobiotic cooking and I have made a Macrobiotic recipe using it along with carrots and I think some onions and some vinegar and it was scrumptious! [ The recipe I made had 2 teaspoons of toasted sesame oil, 1 onion, cut into half moon slices; seas salt to taste; 1 1/2 cups matchstick size burdock pieces and 1 1/2 cup matchstick size carrot pieces, spring water, soy sauce, and 1 t. kuzu dissolved in one T. cold water, 2 stalks celery thinly sliced on a diagonal and 1 T. brown rice vinegar People ought to know that Burdock is very anti-cancer and cleansing to the
What do you think about "Lovage" ? It takes 5 years to reach full maturity but it sounds like it might be worth growing from what I've heard. It supposedly tastes like celery.
Looks cold where you are Lilly. Thanks for the informative video
The British used to harvest their fall potato crop AND replant the spring crop at the same time. I understand that they planted them a little deeper to help protect them in winter. Every spring I find potatoes growing in my raised beds from tubers I missed when harvesting in the fall, so I know they can survive an Ohio winter.
Hi Lily from Auckland New Zealand. I watch all of your videos but I especially love the survival gardening ones. Please make more. Cheers.
I harvested burdock seeds one winter and found it to be an itchy process but worthwhile. To make it easier, wait until the leaves have died and fallen off, then run your gloved hand up the stems to gather masses of burrs, place in a paper bag and dry further if necessary. You need to disturb the burrs to make them release the seeds. Then with a gentle wind outdoors you sift out the seeds from the itchy chaff. The seeds can be planted in a row. Also the seeds can be milled into flour for nutritious addition to breads. My mom thought I was crazy planting a row of burdock because for years farmers are overrun with burdock and is always a chore to control. But I realized the farmers just need to allow the burdock harvesters in during rainy springs and rainy autumns. Burdock is a biennial. First year roots are the best. Second year come the seeds. Harvest for control. My first year long roots in the garden were eaten up at the end of the year from spring planting. There was no regrowth except where I decide. My current garden is on a farm where burdock has been for years so I have lots of volunteers.
I introduced garlic mustard into the garden and it is spread in various areas both in sun and shade. In the shade the leaves get big. I harvest the leaves for garlic mustard pesto - organic oil, little salt, lots pepper, nuts/seeds, parmesan, and garlic mustard leaves, then mill into pesto. Pesto can be frozen for later use. I find it great spread on bread and of course, with pasta.
Cattail pollen can be gathered in a 2 week window. Here in southern Ontario (zone 4) it starts in July. In central Ontario (zone 5) it is a week later after the southern cattail begins. After gathering the pollen from the golden heads with a bag, I go home and sift it clean of bugs and whatnot, then I measure in 1 cup increments into plastic freezer bags for the freezer (otherwise it gets moldy and ferments quickly) (I have never dried it). 1 cup goes right away into a single double bread recipe for golden yellow cattail pollen bread. Often I add cranberries and honey for a sweet recipe. This is my swamp bread.
Regarding potatoes, this year the soil in southern Ontario did not freeze (zone 4). I was still digging potatoes into March. I use alot of mulch on top of the soil (not raised bed). I buy old hay, old straw from farmers and I pickup the free bags of leaves that ignorant city dwellers place at the curb in autumn. The leaves contain so much mineral from deep in the ground that fertilizing is not required. This mulch will turn into a beautiful thick soil over some years. The worms love it because, I tell you, the soil in my garden appears to eat the leaves and everything I feed it mulchwise. There are areas of beautiful leafmold and thick broken down mulch. I try not to till, to keep the upper surface getting thicker. See Back to Eden. Also, NOTE, mulch prevents poisoning plants (it holds poison inert for gradual breakdown and the plant draws only what it needs). Mulch holds moisture for plants much longer than bare soil. Also keep the garden green above the soil. Just fill it and be surprised by what greets you.
OBTAIN MEDICINAL PLANT ID GUIDES, HERB ID GUIDES, WILD FLOWER ID GUIDES, TREE ID GUIDES. When you find any plant of interest, observe them through the year(s) to know them. Try them for their benefits, and beware of any contra-indications ESPECIALLY for PREGNANT WOMEN. Keep the fertile women safe, their babies, our children, and the unborn - your sex cells.
Identify COLTSFOOT now in spring. It is the first yellow flower to appear low to the ground. It is aster like. Gather the flowers for tea. Later, the leaves come up. They are large in the shade. You can eat young leaves as you go or gather for your table salad. Gather leaves, roll them up into balls, dry. Paper bag them after you are sure they are dry, then jar in wintertime. Burn the balls for SALT SEASONING. You can also gather the leaves, dry as is, stack for rolling into cigarettes or powder for the pipe to smoke as tobacco substitute and for easing respiratory conditions.
Identify HORSETAIL for silica tea and for use in roasts for the meat jus/stock/gravy. This makes your skin so soft. This herb is in line with ZEOLITE what helps combat vaccines, poisons in the air from GEOENGINEERING, and ...cides. After air drying, place the horsetail in a paper bag for further drying to be sure. We do not want mold. When winter unfolds that is the time to jar the herbs. LABEL. LABEL! LABEL!!
ALL CRABAPPLE TREES CAN BE GUERRILLA GRAFTED WITH STEMS FROM BIG APPLES SUCH AS CORTLAND, EMPIRE, MACINTOSH, AND IDA RED WHICH HAVE LONG STORAGE LIFE.
One thing I found in "Can You Survive in the Wild Alone" is the constant killing of squirrels. Lacking is the observance of squirrels and chipmunks. These little critters "squirrel away" nuts and seeds which are full of fat and nutrients. These are important caches. TAKE SOME, LEAVE SOME. OBSERVE. DETECT. DO NOT TAKE EVERYTHING. See "Rebel Moon" about that.
great suggestions, thanks
❤ garlic, great presentations, thank you
Purslane, nettles, cattails both root and seed head when green, several tree seed pods, and mushrooms.
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I forgot asparagus, dandelions, and milkweed
Hello everyone from Tennessee
All the oriental vege grow VERY FAST and LIKE COLD (I live in Quebec,Canada) in greenhouse no heat
oignon,carrot, garlic, radish,white radishes, cabagge, bokchoi,lettuce,spinach,celery, potatoes
I live in New brunswick Canada! For my potatoes I make a mound and cover them alternating dirt and leaves! In the spring I use the leaves as mulch! We get -30 to -40 and as of yet had no problem storing till spring! Or on a warm winter day if I need some during winter! I make more than 1 pile and do the same for carrots ,parsnip and burdock! Cheers!
Is burdock root hard to dig out?
Thank you Lilly, I appreciate hearing your thoughts and hearing them in English. ;) Your perspective as an Austrian is worth more that 10k theorists in the USA. Many states here have the same kinds of restrictions you face with climate, personal protection and government overreach so your videos are relevant, even for those of us in less-restrictive states.
In Ireland people used to make a potato clamp to store potatoes and root vegetables. Burry the potatos in a large of straw.
I love that this is potentially for guerilla gardening. I have an empty property behind mine for drainage or the water department or whatever. If I can't manage to turn it into a community garden, I'll sneak in some weed-seeming foods that they won't necessarily bother removing.
I live in a very hot humid climate and we don’t have root cellars so I always use a very open sided plastic container each potato is wrapped in Kraft paper or newspaper but not tightly so they are separated from one another .. put in a cool place and use as needed I just used my sweet potatoes from October of last year… for my garlic I add cloves to honey what a perfect combinations honey and garlic that has fermented about to weeks for the final product and it lasts very long I add it as a salad dressing super healthy learn plants that you can forage in your area and absolutely plant herbs for medicinal properties …flavors and nutrients… thank you for sharing… stay blessed yes plant is UNOBVIOUS PLACES
Love this! Great information thank you❤
One point about storing Jerusalem Artichokes, is they can't be stored :(
Maybe up to a week, but they turn to mush in storage.
However, you can just keep them right in the ground the entire winter, and harvest them as needed when the ground isn't frozen, right up until it gets warm out again, at which point they'll turn mushy and sprout.
Thanks for the very good video!
Hi you can store them. I dig them up and pot a layer of garden soil in a
ND then a layer of artichokes and then another layer of garden soil. If the go to mush it's because it's too warm so you can store them in a container in a shed like me or somewhere outdoors under a tarp or something to keep the light out. This also works for carrots and beets
I agree with leaving in the ground and dig them when you need them. Mulch thickly above them helps to keep the soil from freezing. However, I have dug them up, washed them, sorted carefully, and stored them in buckets using dry sand in layers. The lid must be kept partially open for breathing. The top sometimes is dried out if not eaten continuously. NO SUNSHINE. KEEP FROM GETTING TOO WARM ELSE SPROUTING BEGINS THEN MUSH STARTS. Also check for holes in the sunchokes. Store only perfect chokes. Holes signify a little pest has entered and is feeding and defecating away.
Hi Lilly, I'm subscribed but haven't seen your posts for awhile. Thank you for this important info.
Learned a few things Lily! Thanks!
Sweet potatoes store well and you can sprout them the following year for new plants. You can also dehydrate them and grind them into flour to stretch baking. Seminole Pumpkin and Butternut squash can do the same as far as storage and a flour source. My potatoes are nice but they are the first to go. I might consider overwintering a plant indoors specifically for Seed Potatoes.
Thank you for sharing your video Lilly, really awesome what you are doing
Thank you so much! I love your channel. 🙏🏻
Hi Lilly, I leave some potatoes in my raised beds and cover them with old galvanised garage roof sheeting from November through to March here in the UK (W. YORKS). When i remove the sheets, there are many blanched, leggy shoots showing and they appear to be dead. After 2 weeks though, they turn green and continue to grow. Perhaps not the best over wintering method for 'storing' seed or even eating potatoes but it's a good backup method to prevent rot and frost damage. 6 weeks after removing the sheets this year, the plants are looking strong and healthy.
Hope this helps you Lilly and your viewers.
Regards,
Eggmeister.
if you companion plant your garlic with strawberries you will get a significantly better yield out of both plants
Thank you for the information and content you present in your channel. I really enjoy the topics you present.
Daylillies, hostas, dandelions, lambquarter.
I'm not sure how my growing zone correlates with your side of Europe, but I'm in Ohio and my grandparents were "Great Depression" survivors. A few plants that were staples around here are rhubarb, wild (blackberry) berries, and pawpaw trees. Not because the pawpaw was great fruit, but it IS edible, but because wild game loves the pawpaw fruit and attracted game. I know that you're a skilled archer and wild game is a food source, especially when you're growing bait.
If you decide to grow a pawpaw tree, it will attract so much wild game. The trick to not getting your tree destroyed is to put a "salt lick" near the tree. The game will be attracted by the scent, but go for the salt instead of eating the tree. As an expert archer, maybe the best female archer in the world, at least on TH-cam, you should be able to hunt with great success using this tried and true tactic from the mountains of Appalachia.
We have blackberries, strawberries, figs, raspberry,pear and peach that reproduce every year. Can dehydrate and jar them. Then we do tons of things like garlic basil tomatoes lettuce potatoes, peppers all kinds we dehydrate everything we cant eat and store for zombies lol. Plus 9 chickens. We get dump truck loads of wood chips every year and make our own compost. Thanks lily you are smart and beautiful inside and out.
Awesome topic thats been on my mind.
Thank you, Lily! You’re the best!
Great vid, thank you
Але вже ростуть їстівні бур,яни: кульбаба , мокрець(зірочник), крапива, (маленькі паростки можна додавати у яєчню, та у гарячі страви: борщ, червоний, або зелений), також скоро буде рости лобода, та щериця(дикий амарант).
Another wonderful video. I am one day ahead of the video planting my potatoes. My last year potatoes lasted all winter. They were left with dirt on them. I have planted them in their beds. (Purple color potatoes. Got them as a gift , but they taste great each year they produce.
Great information lilly ❤
You're the greatest Lilly! Loved this episode!
Great video Lilly
Dig a hole put in hay layer potatos With hay cover with soil and maybe a small tarp..This will keep your potatos all winter and into spring no fuss and a space saver..
Need to make sure the hay wasn’t sprayed with Grazon or its equivalent.
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Happy growing season Lilly! I work very very hard in my permaculture too its so addictive.
Nice to see you comment here. Long time no see 🙂
Thank you Lilly, I always enjoy your advice. I have never had much luck with potato growing HOWEVER: potatoes are often sold cheap at the end of our Canadian summer, so it's worth buying one or two large bags, boil, mash and freeze. You can even add the frozen mashed potato to your soups! Best regards from Canada.
Great advice Lilly 👍🏻
Thank you for the information
This is great info Lilly. Thanks so much ✨🫶🏻✨
Informative nicee video 👏👏
Lily, I store my potatoes in a cardboard box with layers of newspaper under my bed. By spring whatever is left has sprouted and is ready to plant. I do that with sweet potatoes also. Matter of fact I have butternut squash sitting under my table from last year. Yeah a root cellar would be great but there are other options.
Good lecture Lilly. Your post will provide good reference material.
If you have a bulkhead or basement, you can cordon off a small area from the rest of your basement with a wall (as far away from your heating boiler as possible), insulate it really well with that styrofoam insulation, and then run a pair of ducts through a basement window or your wooden sill (the place where the floor above meets the concrete -- there is a gap for the floor joists). You want one pipe running from the outside straight down to the floor, and then on the opposite side of your small room, you want a high-duct up near the ceiling to vent the warmer air out. Cold air from the outside will enter and sink, cooling your vegetables, while the warmer air will rise up through the high vent and back outdoors again. You'll want some kind of duct-adjustment (like a wood stove pipe has) to adjust the amount of air-flow to get the temperature you want inside your little root cellar room. On prolonged cold stretches, you will only want a small of cold air coming inside, while on milder days, you'll want it to circulate fairly well.
Here's a guy who did it (playlist): th-cam.com/video/qU5uMvucKpY/w-d-xo.html
🇦🇺😎👍Hi Lilly….Happy Friday
Great video I store a lot of my stuff in my crawl space works
You can line a hole with straw and keep potatoes carrots turnips. Over winter. You have to go below the frost line. You have to have one foot of straw below your vegetables and a foot above your vegetables. Then cover with dirt.
Thank you 🙏
I am so grateful for your videos.